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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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Asymmetric Wholesale Pricing: Theory and Evidence

Ray, Sourav; Chen, Haipeng; Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Asymmetric pricing is the phenomenon where prices rise more readily than they fall. We articulate, and provide empirical support for, a theory of asymmetric pricing in wholesale prices. In particular, we show how wholesale prices may be asymmetric in the small but symmetric in the large, when...

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Measuring Customer Value Gaps: An Empirical Study in Mexican Retail Market

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The role of customer value has been largely recognized over time by the firms as an instrument towards stimulating market share and profit optimization. The customer values for a new product of firm in competitive markets are shaped more by habits, reinforcement effects, and situational...

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Marketing as an entrance barrier into the fashion market

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

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